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From: cthulhu@athena.MIT.EDU@caip.RUTGERS.EDU
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Subject: Electronic Arts Copy Protection
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 21:09:12 EST
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From: cthulhu@athena.MIT.EDU

Tim-
Firstly, I think it's great to actually find someone who can do something
about CP instead of just a bunch of hackers complaining to each other...
However... there is no excuse for not making applications runnable under
the workbench.  None.  On the Mac, it might be necessary to actually
write to the screen memory, to take co ntrol of all the sound channels (all
one of them) or to make unmovable windows, but intuition takes this problem
into account.  That's why the Amiga has screens.  That's why the Amiga has
exec.  I don't know about you, but it detracts a lot from the usefulness of
a game that I can't multitask it with something else (OK, Textcraft, you go
print my document, and I'll play a game... BUT NOT ARCHON OR ANY OTHER EA
GAME, SINCE THEY DON'T MULTITASK)  The only real reason I could think of is
that of copy protection ("archon minidos?")  I wouldn't mind an occasional
pause for another programs I/O during a game.  Please, please set an example
and put evil copy protections like this to rest before they become common
 practice!
						- Jim Reich
						  cthulhu@athena.mit.edu